We may remember hometown stories of innocent complacency, peace of mind, and times that would never change glowing pride in living among Americas’ safest places. Today many of our once pleasant communities and cities occupy the much less respected lists of the highest crime or drug related deaths. And, by this unfortunate opinion, the reasons may be: Radical devaluation of community values and cultural integrity partly due to statistical / demographic changes; The casual indifference to public indecency, vulgarity, wholesale violence, and reckless anti-social behavior; A mass marketed media-driven obsession with dysfunctional escapism, wasteful consumerism, degenerate public figures, and barbaric sensationalism; A litany of crime related issues such as gangs, drugs, guns, prostitution, robbery, crimes against seniors, road rage; an assortment of Internet scams and fraud; Lastly, an overwhelmed inept system of services within a void of visionary leadership. Now let us look at some of the safest towns in New Jersey:
